FWIW, I haven't included an IRC field in the address book cards because an IRC nick without also specifying the IRC network is useless for the purpose of detecting presence or matching an IM conversation with an address book contact.
That said, if people want to have such a field to just store some information, I have nothing against it.

(In reply to Florian Quèze [:florian] [:flo] from comment #2)
>if people want to have such a field to just store some
> information, I have nothing against it.
On second thought, if some nickname is not registered it would be useless/dangerous to associate it with an AB contact. Just storing the info would be nice and enough.

(In reply to Avinash from comment #4)
> I would be interested to work on this. I am new to the platform but can do
> clean HTML and JS. I would appreciate if someone could point me on how to
> start and yes, is this something that we want ?
Hey Avinash!
Great to hear that you're interested! Your first step is to create a Thunderbird build for your OS.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Simple_Thunderbird_build
Let me know when you've got that set up, and I'll let you know the next step.
Thanks!
-Mike

Hello Mike and Florian, That patch link did help and i have been able to add a IRC field to the address book. It saves and shows up in the address book. Is that all we wanted or have i missed something.
Do i send the screenshots and the patch?

Hey Mike and Florian!
I am a beginner to the source code,and would like to work on this hack.It would be great if you would help me out with the same.
And my area of expertise is C++.So is this task achievable...??

(In reply to Avinash from comment #8)
> Hello Mike and Florian, That patch link did help and i have been able to add
> a IRC field to the address book. It saves and shows up in the address book.
> Is that all we wanted or have i missed something.
> Do i send the screenshots and the patch?
Avinash:
Holy smokes, I have no idea how your comment slipped past my radar. :( If you have a patch, yes, please post it! Screenshots are good too.
-Mike

(In reply to Janit Anjaria from comment #9)
> Hey Mike and Florian!
> I am a beginner to the source code,and would like to work on this hack.It
> would be great if you would help me out with the same.
> And my area of expertise is C++.So is this task achievable...??
Hey Janit,

Whoops - pressed submit too early. Let's try that again.
Hey Janit,
I think this bug is already being worked on. We kind of dropped the ball on assigning it though. Let's see if Avinash posts a patch, and if not, we can let you pick up the ball and drive this one.
Thanks,
-Mike

(In reply to Mike Conley (:mconley) from comment #10)
> (In reply to Avinash from comment #8)
> > Hello Mike and Florian, That patch link did help and i have been able to add
> > a IRC field to the address book. It saves and shows up in the address book.
> > Is that all we wanted or have i missed something.
> > Do i send the screenshots and the patch?
>
> Avinash:
>
> Holy smokes, I have no idea how your comment slipped past my radar. :( If
> you have a patch, yes, please post it! Screenshots are good too.
>
> -Mike
Hello Mike,
Yes I think i have the patch and i'll get a screenshot. Let me just search where i have it . I had dropped this after i got no replies, thought it was not required. I will get back with the patch and screenshot asap.
Thanks and Regards,
Avinash

(In reply to Avinash from comment #13)
> (In reply to Mike Conley (:mconley) from comment #10)
> > (In reply to Avinash from comment #8)
> > > Hello Mike and Florian, That patch link did help and i have been able to add
> > > a IRC field to the address book. It saves and shows up in the address book.
> > > Is that all we wanted or have i missed something.
> > > Do i send the screenshots and the patch?
> >
> > Avinash:
> >
> > Holy smokes, I have no idea how your comment slipped past my radar. :( If
> > you have a patch, yes, please post it! Screenshots are good too.
> >
> > -Mike
>
> Hello Mike,
>
> Yes I think i have the patch and i'll get a screenshot. Let me just search
> where i have it . I had dropped this after i got no replies
That was our fault. My apologies for dropping the ball!

(In reply to Mike Conley (:mconley) from comment #14)
> (In reply to Avinash from comment #13)
> > (In reply to Mike Conley (:mconley) from comment #10)
> > > (In reply to Avinash from comment #8)
> > > > Hello Mike and Florian, That patch link did help and i have been able to add
> > > > a IRC field to the address book. It saves and shows up in the address book.
> > > > Is that all we wanted or have i missed something.
> > > > Do i send the screenshots and the patch?
> > >
> > > Avinash:
> > >
> > > Holy smokes, I have no idea how your comment slipped past my radar. :( If
> > > you have a patch, yes, please post it! Screenshots are good too.
> > >
> > > -Mike
> >
> > Hello Mike,
> >
> > Yes I think i have the patch and i'll get a screenshot. Let me just search
> > where i have it . I had dropped this after i got no replies
>
> That was our fault. My apologies for dropping the ball!
Hello Mike,
I have added a patch for it and a screenshot.
I'll have a look and see if i have missed anything. I am new to both mercurial and the thunderbird platform so do be nice :D
Do notify me if there is a mistake or improvements that can be made.
Regards,
Avinash

(In reply to Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul] from comment #18)
> Comment on attachment 713810[details][diff][review]
> patch
>
> Patches needs to request reviews - doing it for you now.
oh! thank you so much .. I am new to the workflow. will get a hang of it soon.

I'm going to drive by review here from a high level...
"name#channel" doesn't really make sense, someone's nick is network dependent, not channel dependent. This is a bit unique compared to all the other networks that are listed (except maybe "Jabber ID", not all networks are affiliated...). Just something to think about!
Also, is this supposed to be machine parsable? If so, more effort will need to be put into thinking about the separator character.

(In reply to Patrick Cloke [:clokep] from comment #20)
> I'm going to drive by review here from a high level...
> "name#channel" doesn't really make sense, someone's nick is network
> dependent, not channel dependent. This is a bit unique compared to all the
> other networks that are listed (except maybe "Jabber ID", not all networks
> are affiliated...). Just something to think about!
>
> Also, is this supposed to be machine parsable? If so, more effort will need
> to be put into thinking about the separator character.
O yes! "name#channel" actually doesn't make sense at all, we can have something like "name@network" maybe.

is it possibl(In reply to Philip Chee from comment #31)
> > I just realized that this landed with my name as the committer
> You could back it out and reland it with the correct patch author :P
yay! if it is possible, i can send another patch .. with me as the author :D

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